The Iranian Film Festival, San Francisco–an annual event showcasing the independent feature and short films made by or about the Iranians from around the world and aims to support the Iranian film culture.

Film festivals that honor Iranian films are held annually across the globe and now the time has finally arrived for an Iranian Film Festival to have a permanent home in the United Kingdom. UKIFF (a London-based charity and limited company) is delighted to announce the inaugural London Iranian Film Festival.

The 3rd Annual Iranian Film Festival in San Francisco, a showcase for the independent feature and short films made by and about the Iranians from around the world, is inviting filmmakers from all over the world to submit their films to the next edition taking place September 18-19, 2010.

I hate Iranian music. Or so I thought. Last night, somewhere between the mandatory, polite applause that pre-empted the screening of  “No One Knows About Persian Cats” and the enthusiastic, deserved standing ovation that followed it, all of that changed. It wasn’t so much the first half of the sentence that became obsolete but the [...]